Agent skill

Curate

by rweekly in rweekly/rweekly.org

Guide the R Weekly curation team through preparing a new weekly issue.

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Install Curate

skills CLI
$ npx skills add rweekly/rweekly.org --skill curate -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install rweekly/rweekly.org curate --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/curate .claude/skills/curate && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
curate
GitHub stars
826
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
741 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
5
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Guide the R Weekly curation team through preparing a new weekly issue.

  • Works in 3 steps: Is it R-related? Fetch and read the… → Is it already in the draft or flagged as… → Which section does it belong to?
  • An editor wants to process the weekly content pipeline
  • SKILL.md covers Live Context and Your Task
  • Calls curl, npx and gh; reaches r.jina.ai and defuddle.md; needs OPENAI_API_KEY

What it does

Curate is an agent skill from rweekly/rweekly.org. Guide the R Weekly curation team through preparing a new weekly issue. Reads curatinatorlatest.md, classifies posts by section, checks for duplicates, and populates draft.md. Use when an editor wants to process the weekly content pipeline.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics.

When your agent uses it

  • An editor wants to process the weekly content pipeline

Example prompts

  • “/curate”

Requirements

  • Node.js
  • A credential in OPENAI_API_KEY
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Edit, Bash, Grep, WebFetch

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Is it R-related? Fetch and read the actual page content for every item before deciding — do not infer relatedness from the title, author…
  2. Is it already in the draft or flagged as a duplicate? If so, skip it.
  3. Which section does it belong to?

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 72b2735. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Edit
    • Bash
    • Grep
    • WebFetch

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • curl
    • npx
    • gh

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • r.jina.ai
    • defuddle.md
    • cranlogs.r-pkg.org
    • cran.r-project.org
    • diffify.com
    • raw.githubusercontent.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • OPENAI_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Curate loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 741 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Read, Edit, Bash, Grep, WebFetch

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 741 words (~1,752 tokens).

“You are helping the R Weekly curation team prepare the weekly issue. Work through the candidate content from curatinator_latest.md and populate draft.md.”

— opening of SKILL.md by rweekly
name
curate
allowed-tools
Read, Edit, Bash, Grep, WebFetch
disable-model-invocation
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/curate of rweekly/rweekly.org.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 72b2735

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TimesFM Forecastinggoogle-research/timesfm34k—~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Curate

What does Curate do?

Guide the R Weekly curation team through preparing a new weekly issue. org. Guide the R Weekly curation team through preparing a new weekly issue.

When should I use Curate?

Curate fits situations like: an editor wants to process the weekly content pipeline.

How do I install Curate in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add rweekly/rweekly.org --skill curate -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/curate in rweekly/rweekly.org) into .claude/skills/curate in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Curate in Codex?

Run `npx skills add rweekly/rweekly.org --skill curate -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/curate in rweekly/rweekly.org) into .agents/skills/curate in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Curate in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add rweekly/rweekly.org --skill curate -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/curate, .gemini/skills/curate, .github/skills/curate and .opencode/skills/curate in your project.

What does Curate need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Curate needs the command-line tools its instructions call (curl, npx and gh) and credentials named OPENAI_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Node.js; A credential in OPENAI_API_KEY. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Edit, Bash, Grep, WebFetch.

Does Curate access the network?

SKILL.md names 6 domains. In commands or code: r.jina.ai, defuddle.md, cranlogs.r-pkg.org, cran.r-project.org, diffify.com and raw.githubusercontent.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Curate safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Curate use?

No licence was found for Curate or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Curate use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Curate?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Curate: Exploratory Data Analysis (spacering-net/codeg, 3.8k stars), Matplotlib (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.6k stars), Scikit Learn (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.6k stars) and Chart Visualization (bytedance/deer-flow, 83k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Curate?

rweekly (a GitHub organization) maintains it in rweekly/rweekly.org, which has 826 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: rweekly/rweekly.org on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.